Energy decay for viscoelastic plates with distributed delay and source term

In this paper we consider a viscoelastic plate equation with distributed delay and source term. Under suitable conditions on the delay and source term, we establish an explicit and general decay rate result without imposing restrictive assumptions on the behavior of the relaxation function at infinity. Our result allows a wider class of relaxation functions and improves earlier results in the literature.     

General Decay for a Viscoelastic Equation of Variable Coefficients in the Presence of Past History with Delay Term in the Boundary Feedback and Acoustic Boundary Conditions

In this paper, we consider a viscoelastic equation of variable coefficients in the presence of infinite memory (past history) with nonlinear damping term and nonlinear delay term in the boundary feedback and acoustic boundary conditions. Under suitable assumptions, two arbitrary decay results of the energy solution are established via suitable Lyapunov functionals and some properties of the convex functions. The first stability result is given with relation between the damping term and relaxation function. The second result is given without imposing any restrictive growth assumption on the damping term and the kernel function \(g\). Our result extends the decay result obtained for problems with finite history to those with infinite history.     

General decay of solutions to a viscoelastic wave equation with linear damping,nonlinear damping and source term

ABSTRACT

This paper is concerned with the decay property of a nonlinear viscoelastic wave equation with linear damping, nonlinear damping and source term. Under weaker assumption on the relaxation function, we establish a general decay result, which extends the result obtained in Messaoudi [Exponential decay of solutions of a nonlinearly damped wave equation. Nodea-Nonlinear Differ Equat Appl. 2005;12:391–399].     

Exponential decay of solution to the viscoelastic porous‐thermoelastic system of type III with boundary time‐varying delay

In this paper, we are concerned with a one‐dimensional porous‐thermoelastic system of type III with a viscoelastic damping and boundary time‐varying delay. Under suitable assumptions on relaxation function and time delay, we establish the exponential decay result of the system in which the damping is strong enough to stabilize the thermoelastic system in the presence of time delay. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Blow-Up Result in a Nonlinear Wave Equation with Delay

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear wave equation with delay. We show that under suitable conditions on the initial data, the weights of the damping, the delay term and the nonlinear source, the energy of solutions blows up in a finite time.     

GENERAL DECAY FOR A VISCOELASTIC EQUATION OF VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS WITH A TIME-VARYING DELAY IN THE BOUNDARY FEEDBACK AND ACOUSTIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

A variable coefficient viscoelastic equation with a time-varying delay in the boundary feedback and acoustic boundary conditions and nonlinear source term is considered.Under suitable assumptions, general decay results of the energy are established via suitable Lyapunov functionals and some properties of the convex functions. Our result is obtained without imposing any restrictive growth assumption on the damping term and the elements of the matrix A and the kernel function g.     

Global existence of BV solutions and relaxation limit for a model of multiphase reactive flow

We consider a strictly hyperbolic system of balance laws in one space variable, that represents a simple model for a fluid flow in the presence of phase transitions. The state variables are specific volume, velocity and mass-density fraction λ of the vapor in the fluid. A reactive source term drives the dynamics of the phase mixtures; such a term depends on a relaxation parameter and involves an equilibrium pressure, allowing for metastable states.First we prove the global existence of weak solutions to the Cauchy problem, where the initial datum for λ is close either to 0 or 1 (the pure phases) and has small total variation, while the initial variations of pressure and velocity are not necessarily small. Then we consider the relaxation limit and prove that the weak solutions of the full system converge to those of the reduced system.     

Convergence of relaxation schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws with stiff source terms

We focus in this study on the convergence of a class of relaxation numerical schemes for hyperbolic scalar conservation laws including stiff source terms. Following Jin and Xin, we use as approximation of the scalar conservation law, a semi-linear hyperbolic system with a second stiff source term. This allows us to avoid the use of a Riemann solver in the construction of the numerical schemes. The convergence of the approximate solution toward a weak solution is established in the cases of first and second order accurate MUSCL relaxed methods.

     

ELASTIC MEMBRANE EQUATION WITH MEMORY TERM AND NONLINEAR BOUNDARY DAMPING:GLOBAL EXISTENCE,DECAY AND BLOWUP OF THE SOLUTION

In this paper we consider the Elastic membrane equation with memory term and nonlinear boundary damping.Under some appropriate assumptions on the relaxation function h and with certain initial data,the global existence of solutions and a general decay for the energy are established using the multiplier technique.Also,we show that a nonlinear source of polynomial type is able to force solutions to blow up in finite time even in presence of a nonlinear damping.     

A mathematical model of inter-terminal transportation

We present a novel integer programming model for analyzing inter-terminal transportation (ITT) in new and expanding sea ports. ITT is the movement of containers between terminals (sea, rail or otherwise) within a port. ITT represents a significant source of delay for containers being transshipped, which costs ports money and affects a port’s reputation. Our model assists ports in analyzing the impact of new infrastructure, the placement of terminals, and ITT vehicle investments. We provide analysis of ITT at two ports, the port of Hamburg, Germany and the Maasvlakte 1 & 2 area of the port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in which we solve a vehicle flow combined with a multi-commodity container flow on a congestion based time–space graph to optimality. We introduce a two-step solution procedure that computes a relaxation of the overall ITT problem in order to find solutions faster. Our graph contains special structures to model the long term loading and unloading of vehicles, and our model is general enough to model a number of important real-world aspects of ITT, such as traffic congestion, penalized late container delivery, multiple ITT transportation modes, and port infrastructure modifications. We show that our model can scale to real-world sizes and provide ports with important information for their long term decision making.     

A stability result of a Timoshenko system with a delay term in the internal feedback

In this paper, we consider a Timoshenko system with a delay term in the feedback and prove a stability result. The beam is clamped at the endpoints and has, in addition to an internal damping, a feedback with a delay.Under an appropriate assumption on the weights of the two feedbacks, we prove the well-posedness of the system and establish an exponential decay result for the case of equal-speed wave propagation.     

Polynomial decay and blow up of solutions for variable coefficients viscoelastic wave equation with acoustic boundary conditions

A variable coefficient viscoelastic wave equation with acoustic boundary conditions and nonlinear source term is considered. Under suitable conditions on the initial data and the relaxation function g, we show the polynomial decay of the energy solution and the blow up of solutions by energy methods. The estimates for the lifespan of solutions are also given.     

On the control of solutions of viscoelastic equations with boundary feedback

In this paper we consider a viscoelastic equation with a nonlinear feedback localized on a part of the boundary. For a wider class of relaxation functions and without imposing any restrictive growth assumption on the damping term, we establish an explicit and general decay rate result.     

Cauchy problem for a nonlinear viscoelastic equation with nonlinear damping and source terms

In this paper, we consider a Cauchy problem for a nonlinear viscoelastic equation with nonlinear damping and source terms. Under suitable assumptions on the initial data and the relaxation function, we establish a finite-time blow-up result and a global existence result.     

MULTIDIMENSIONAL RELAXATION APPROXIMATIONS FOR HYPERBOLIC SYSTEMS OF CONSERVATION LAWS

We construct and implement a non-oscillatory relaxation scheme for multidimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. The method transforms the nonlinear hyperbolic system to a semilinear model with a relaxation source term and linear characteristics which can be solved numerically without using either Riemann solver or linear iterations. To discretize the relaxation system we consider a high-resolution reconstruction in space and a TVD Runge-Kutta time integration. Detailed formulation of the scheme is given for problems in three space dimensions and numerical experiments are implemented in both scalar and system cases to show the effectiveness of the method.     

On convexity for energy decay rates of a viscoelastic equation with boundary feedback

In this paper we consider a viscoelastic equation with a nonlinear feedback localized on a part of the boundary. We establish an explicit and general decay rate result, using some properties of the convex functions. Our result is obtained without imposing any restrictive growth assumption on the damping term and strongly weakening the usual assumptions on the relaxation function.     

Decay rate for viscoelastic wave equation of variable coefficients with delay and dynamic boundary conditions

In this paper, we consider a viscoelastic wave equation of variable coefficients in the presence of past history with nonlinear damping and delay in the internal feedback and dynamic boundary conditions. Under suitable assumptions, we establish an explicit and general decay rate result without imposing restrictive assumption on the behavior of the relaxation function at infinity by Riemannian geometry method and Lyapunov functional method.     

Delay nonlinear boundary conditions as limit of reactions concentrating in the boundary

In this work, we are interested in the dynamic behavior of a parabolic problem with nonlinear boundary conditions and delay in the boundary. We construct a reaction–diffusion problem with delay in the interior, where the reaction term is concentrated in a neighborhood of the boundary and this neighborhood shrinks to boundary, as a parameter ? goes to zero. We analyze the limit of the solutions of this concentrated problem and prove that these solutions converge in certain continuous function spaces to the unique solution of the parabolic problem with delay in the boundary. This convergence result allows us to approximate the solution of equations with delay acting on the boundary by solutions of equations with delay acting in the interior and it may contribute to analyze the dynamic behavior of delay equations when the delay is at the boundary.     

General decay for a coupled Lamé system of nonlinear viscoelastic equations

In this paper, we consider a coupled Lamé system of nonlinear viscoelastic equations with general source terms. Under some suitable conditions on the initial data and the relaxation functions, we prove an asymptotic stability result of global solution taking into account that the kernel is not necessarily decreasing. This work generalizes and improves earlier results in the literature.     

On positive periodic solution for the delay Nicholson’s blowflies model with a harvesting term

By using Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem, we obtain a sufficient condition for the existence of positive periodic solutions for the delay Nicholson’s blowflies model with a harvesting term. Three examples and numerical simulation are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our result.